I Have Trouble Understanding How Something Works Unless It's Shown To Me

[Premier Alexander Romanov]

I can barely play Cardfight!Vanguard, because I got the barest bones of a tutorial a couple years back, and now, all the new stuff might as well be Sanskrit to me.
I know how to play Magic: the Gathering, because I used to play Duel Masters, and, save for the COUNTLESS KEYWORDS, I grasp the basics.
And I know Yu-Gi-Oh! well because of both the anime, which did a good job of explaining how the game works (sort of), and the fact that my little brother and I basically introduced the game to our hometown, so we were able to learn a bit better from the others.

That's why this whole Igknight thing didn't click. I know how Pendulum Summons work. I know the principles of card advantage. And the highest level of math I have completed is college-level Calculus II. But it took a friend of mine to demonstrate the ideal combo that forms the crux of the archetype to me for me to get it.
Is...is this a problem that other people have, or is it just one of the many things fucked up about my head, besides my autism and my slight OCD?

[Flash Flyer - Sakura]

You're not the only one.

 

I've been playing since maybe 2002-2003ish (although mostly on the casual end of stuff), and while I'm not behind on new card mechanics, I still have problems finding ideal combos and other stuff at times.

 

Metagame-wise, I am a bit behind on things, but you can probably attribute that to lack of tournaments over here (or the fact that I don't care about the competitive world part of the time, because of recent events).

 

 

If you don't see card advantage + combos in a Deck right away, it's not your fault. We'd all like to get it down quickly, but some of us just don't work that way.

Then again, Black's been in the game since its inception; but not going to say if it's that reason which makes him act the way he does in TCG. (That's the impression I got from that thread, aside from the other things)

[The Warden]

I think it's largely because you take everything too literally as you don't take the time to think things over first/understand what is being said to you.

[Maeriberii Haan]

I think you should actually try asking less questions, and think more regarding the thing you want to ask about. Like, don't jump into things and just process the information you have right now, and try not to stand still on one opinion when you do that so your thought process would not be disturbed by it. Often times, you overlooked important details at times like those, or just got some simple oversight, really.

 

You usually able to figure things out by yourself sooner or later from what I've seen. It's just, you usually have a strong opinion on things, and that became a wall when you try to understand new things. It's not having strong opinions regarding things are bad. Being open to new possibilities and being able to get past the wall by seeing your initial impression as potentially being flawed is what would make it easier for you to understand these, from what I've seen so far from you, hopefully.

 

So yeah, more forethought, less afterthought. Try thinking more regarding stuffs yourself before you ask questions about them. And...if you can, try stop thinking that you won't be able to understand thing if it's not shown how to you, even if experience told you so. 

 

It's not something weird or anything like that, but I think, you just need to change how your train of thought work.

 

Hope this helps.

[Night]

This section is for site related questions only, in the future use it as such. 

 

Moved to general. 

[CLG Klavier]

The main problem with that situation is I feel you didn't look at cards when we were explaining that.

 

When someone explains something card-related, have those cards in front of you and try to follow the steps. It will click.

[evilfusion]

In that particular topic, you just looked at the scenario in black and white. You saw you needed 2 Scales to start, and assumed that was ALL you had at the start, when people were actually saying you started with 3. This misconception meant that nothing anyone said made any sense because the numbers didn't add up until you realized there was a 3rd card in the scenario at the beginning.

 

Your issue, from my plethora of examples of such things happening, is that when you get confused, you become flustered and ask the same type of question repeatedly and get the same answer, because you aren't asking a question that indicates where you're confused. In the aforementioned topic, you kept asking where the 3rd Scale came from, when people were assuming you knew that they were starting with 3.

 

This is also why things became clearer when it was explained in less abstract terms, by using different names of the cards instead of a generic number. (Like Klavier just said)

 

The greater problem you have isn't about having things explained, it's that when you become flustered, you don't take a breath and let yourself digest what is being said. You hear what is said, and then become more agitated when things don't click immediately, and repeat your question with more urgency. When in any stage of panic (mild or extreme), it takes longer for things to sink in because panic runs on a more instinctive level, where things like "thinking" can get one killed. An amusingly extreme example, true, but then again, people hide in closets instead of running out the front door.

 

 

[Slinky]

I can barely play Cardfight!Vanguard, because I got the barest bones of a tutorial a couple years back, and now, all the new stuff might as well be Sanskrit to me.
I know how to play Magic: the Gathering, because I used to play Duel Masters, and, save for the COUNTLESS KEYWORDS, I grasp the basics.
And I know Yu-Gi-Oh! well because of both the anime, which did a good job of explaining how the game works (sort of), and the fact that my little brother and I basically introduced the game to our hometown, so we were able to learn a bit better from the others.

That's why this whole Igknight thing didn't click. I know how Pendulum Summons work. I know the principles of card advantage. And the highest level of math I have completed is college-level Calculus II. But it took a friend of mine to demonstrate the ideal combo that forms the crux of the archetype to me for me to get it.
Is...is this a problem that other people have, or is it just one of the many things fucked up about my head, besides my autism and my slight OCD?

 

There's your problem. People with autism tend to need to be shown how things work or they won't be able to get it. I had this problem with my Math classes despite it being one of my favorite subjects.